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Article Title: Travellers Guide to Birmingham
Author: Naz Daud
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England�s second-largest city has in recent years re-invented itself as a cool and vibrant place to visit.
Travellers can easily get to Birmingham via the local International Airport that is just 20 minutes outside the city centre. By train into either New Street Station, Snow Hill Station or Moor Street Station. By coach into Digbeth Coach Station or by car on the M5, M6, M40 and M42 motorways.
The city centre itself has been through a period of radical change, for the better, over recent years. The new Bull Ring shopping centre is the main shopping and dining venue and the area along Broad Street has many clubs and restaurants.
Brindley Place is just off Broad Street and has a great range of Caf�s, bars and restaurants as well as the National Indoor Arena, the Symphony Hall that is located within the International Convention Centre (ICC). Then there is the famous Hippodrome and the National Sea Life Centre.
The Mailbox (once a Royal Mail sorting office) is an upmarket development featuring offices, designer shops, bars, restaurants and luxury apartments as well as the BBC�s local TV and Radio studios.
When the Mailbox was a sorting office, mail was transferred between the sorting office and New Street Station, the mail used to travel along a tunnel between the two. Sometimes this has been opened to the public. The Sorting Office originally housed the largest electric sorting equipment within the West Midlands.
Located by the Mailbox is The Cube whose unique design has transformed the skyline of Birmingham. The Cube has offices, apartments, a club and spa, the Hotel Indigo and the Marco Pierre White restaurant that affords fabulous views across the city from its 25th floor location. For a more casual dining experience there is the Canalside Restaurant that includes a Tea Room and licensed bar. The car park at the Cube is the largest automated car park in the UK. It drops three storeys underground and has a capacity for 339 cars. Vehicles are dropped off at one of four transfer garages where they are scanned and transported in to the car park via an automatic lift from which they are then transported on a palletless conveyor system to an empty space.
On the outskirts of the city is the NEC (National Exhibition Centre). The NEC is the largest exhibition centre in the UK and one the busiest in Europe.
If you are going to stay in Birmingham, there are many good hotels in the city centre such as the Hilton, the Radisson Blu, the Hyatt, the Marriott and the 4-star Copthorne Hotel. There are many other national chains of budget hotels in the area and plenty of privately owned B&B�s.
For Tolkein fans, his parents were from Birmingham and some of the areas in Birmingham that inspired his locations for his Trilogy The Lord of The Rings such as the Moseley Bog, Sarehole Mill, the Two Towers in Edgbaston.
Sarehole Mill is referred to in the Hobbit as the Great Mill and Perrott�s Folly and the Edgbaston Waterworks were the �Two Towers.�
Many famous people who were born in Birmingham include:
Ozzy Osbourne � Black Sabbath
Carl Palmer � Emerson Lake and Palmer
Alexander Parkes � inventor of first plastic
Martin Shaw � actor
Steve Winwood � founder of the band Traffic
Roy Wood � The Move, ELO and Wizzard
Barbara Cartland � novelist
John Cadbury � founder of Cadbury�s
Jasper Carrott � comedian
Neville Chamberlain � formed Prime Minister
Oscar Deutsch � founder of Odeon cinemas
Phil Lynott �Thin Lizzy
The Moody Blues � named after the local brewery M&B (Mitchells and Butlers) from which they hoped to gain sponsorship.
If you would like to know more about Birmingham, get in touch.
About The Author: Naz Daud http://www.citylocal.co.uk/Birmingham/weather-in-Birmingham/ http://www.citylocal.co.uk/Birmingham/cinema-listings-guide-in-Birmingham/ http://www.citylocal.co.uk/cities/Birmingham/news/
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Article Title: Travellers Guide to Birmingham
Author: Naz Daud
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England�s second-largest city has in recent years re-invented itself as a cool and vibrant place to visit.
Travellers can easily get to Birmingham via the local International Airport that is just 20 minutes outside the city centre. By train into either New Street Station, Snow Hill Station or Moor Street Station. By coach into Digbeth Coach Station or by car on the M5, M6, M40 and M42 motorways.
The city centre itself has been through a period of radical change, for the better, over recent years. The new Bull Ring shopping centre is the main shopping and dining venue and the area along Broad Street has many clubs and restaurants.
Brindley Place is just off Broad Street and has a great range of Caf�s, bars and restaurants as well as the National Indoor Arena, the Symphony Hall that is located within the International Convention Centre (ICC). Then there is the famous Hippodrome and the National Sea Life Centre.
The Mailbox (once a Royal Mail sorting office) is an upmarket development featuring offices, designer shops, bars, restaurants and luxury apartments as well as the BBC�s local TV and Radio studios.
When the Mailbox was a sorting office, mail was transferred between the sorting office and New Street Station, the mail used to travel along a tunnel between the two. Sometimes this has been opened to the public. The Sorting Office originally housed the largest electric sorting equipment within the West Midlands.
Located by the Mailbox is The Cube whose unique design has transformed the skyline of Birmingham. The Cube has offices, apartments, a club and spa, the Hotel Indigo and the Marco Pierre White restaurant that affords fabulous views across the city from its 25th floor location. For a more casual dining experience there is the Canalside Restaurant that includes a Tea Room and licensed bar. The car park at the Cube is the largest automated car park in the UK. It drops three storeys underground and has a capacity for 339 cars. Vehicles are dropped off at one of four transfer garages where they are scanned and transported in to the car park via an automatic lift from which they are then transported on a palletless conveyor system to an empty space.
On the outskirts of the city is the NEC (National Exhibition Centre). The NEC is the largest exhibition centre in the UK and one the busiest in Europe.
If you are going to stay in Birmingham, there are many good hotels in the city centre such as the Hilton, the Radisson Blu, the Hyatt, the Marriott and the 4-star Copthorne Hotel. There are many other national chains of budget hotels in the area and plenty of privately owned B&B�s.
For Tolkein fans, his parents were from Birmingham and some of the areas in Birmingham that inspired his locations for his Trilogy The Lord of The Rings such as the Moseley Bog, Sarehole Mill, the Two Towers in Edgbaston.
Sarehole Mill is referred to in the Hobbit as the Great Mill and Perrott�s Folly and the Edgbaston Waterworks were the �Two Towers.�
Many famous people who were born in Birmingham include:
Ozzy Osbourne � Black Sabbath
Carl Palmer � Emerson Lake and Palmer
Alexander Parkes � inventor of first plastic
Martin Shaw � actor
Steve Winwood � founder of the band Traffic
Roy Wood � The Move, ELO and Wizzard
Barbara Cartland � novelist
John Cadbury � founder of Cadbury�s
Jasper Carrott � comedian
Neville Chamberlain � formed Prime Minister
Oscar Deutsch � founder of Odeon cinemas
Phil Lynott �Thin Lizzy
The Moody Blues � named after the local brewery M&B (Mitchells and Butlers) from which they hoped to gain sponsorship.
If you would like to know more about Birmingham, get in touch.
About The Author: Naz Daud http://www.citylocal.co.uk/Birmingham/weather-in-Birmingham/ http://www.citylocal.co.uk/Birmingham/cinema-listings-guide-in-Birmingham/ http://www.citylocal.co.uk/cities/Birmingham/news/
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